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This Cookies Policy applies to the website www.jrht.org.uk (the "Site"). It is run by the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust (“JRHT”), a registered housing association in England and Wales.

Our trading address is: The Homestead, 40 Water End, York, YO30 6WP.

This Cookies Policy (the “Policy”) explains how we use cookies and other similar technologies. We use them to collect information about the way website users visit the Site. We use cookies across our websites to improve their performance and your experience of them. By accessing the Site, you are agreeing to the terms of this Policy. We may update this Policy from time to time and will post any changes on this page.

Cookies – what they are, how they work and why we use them

Cookies are small text files of letters and numbers. They are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently. They also provide information to the owners of the site. Our cookies are small files containing a unique reference number. They are created by our Site and sent to your computer's browser. They are subsequently stored on your computer. They take virtually no space up. They're there so our Site can tell that you're the website user as you move from page to page. These files are stored in the memory of your computer. Or your other devices, such as mobile phones or tablets.

Cookies help us provide you with a better website. They enable us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. They also help us to resolve problems if things go wrong. They help us understand how users use the Site, and improve your experience of using it.

The following categories of cookies are used on the Site:

Strictly Necessary: these cookies are strictly necessary for the Site to work properly. They are needed to allow you to move around the Site and use our features.

Performance/Analytical: these cookies allow us to collect certain information about how you navigate the Site. They help us to understand which parts of our Site are interesting to you. Also, what we can do to improve them.

Our use of cookies is fully compliant with all United Kingdom data protection and data privacy regulations

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary cookies are essential to enable you to move around the Site and use it's features. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes. These cookies are first-party cookies and originate from our own servers.

Cookies

Name

Purpose

has_js

This cookie is used by the website CMS to see if your web browser can support JavaScript, and is removed from your computer when you close your web browser.

Session

A session cookie which is used by the website CMS to see if you are logged in to the site. It does not contain any personal information. It will have a name similar to 'SESSb7ae…'.

Drupal.tableDrag.showWeight

This cookie is used by the website CMS to to store user interface preferences. It is set when you use pages where information appears in tabbed format.

Drupal.visitor.mbp.current_folder

This cookie is used by the website CMS to to store user interface preferences. It is used to store the current folder that a website admin has open for a module called Media Browser Plus.

cookie-agreed

This cookie is is used by the website CMS to remember if the cookie message has been displayed yet.

Performance Cookies

Performance cookies collect information about how you use the Site. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes. The information is used to help us improve how our website works and understand what interest our users.

Cookies

Name

Owner

Purpose

_ga

Google

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our Site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the Site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.

Used by Siteimprove to collect statistics about site usage. This information is then used to improve the user experience on this website.

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AddThis

This cookie is set by the social media sharing service AddThis. AddThis allows you to share content via social networking websites and email.

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CloudFlare

This cookie is set by the CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic. It does not correspond to any user id in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable information.

Further Information on Google Analytics cookies

When someone visits the Site we use a third party service, Google Analytics. It collects standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things like the number of visitors to various parts of the Site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our Site. We do not allow Google to do this either. Currently, we do not collect any personal information through this Site. If that changed, we would make it clear when we collect personal information. We would explain what we intend to do with it. However, to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Please note that JRHT has no control over how Google use the data they collect via cookies.

Controlling Cookies

You can control the use and placing of any cookies on your computer. This is done through the settings you select on your internet browser.

You can change your browser settings to accept or refuse all cookies. You can choose which cookies you want or don’t want, or ask to be notified when a cookie is set. You can use the help feature in your browser to see how.

However, if you block all cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our site. Or you may experience reduced functionality when accessing certain services.